[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > The policy, that as chithanh pointed out needs to be updated, is > just going to cause more grief by the time you want to pick up the > old files for whatever reason. Ulrich (ulm) and Christian (fauli) > knows how much a pain it becomes. Oh,

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/20/11 1:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is > reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use > the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these. > This makes sure that the file wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:57:59AM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > here's a better idea: figure out something with the infra team. > > [snip] > > again, declaring policy ahead of talking to anyone else is not the way > > to go. > Actually, we meant to move to a stable archive of distfiles for

[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 22.31 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > we havent > hosted files on dev.g.o because we've felt the distfiles tree to be > sufficient. since there seems to be more need now, let's find out > what infra > can do to help out. I'm pretty sure you have, for pax-uti

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 21:56:52 Matt Turner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 21.44 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > >> you really need to start off discussions as "here is the problem i > >> perceive > >> and here is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 21.44 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: >> >> you really need to start off discussions as "here is the problem i >> perceive >> and here is a solution i think will address it".  shooting off e-mails >> from

[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 20.07 -0500, Rich Freeman ha scritto: > Forward going? Or, should we go ahead and start retroactively > updating ebuilds that have mirror:// in them right now? Presumably > without a revbump over something like this... > I wouldn't mind if it was done retroactivel

[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno gio, 20/01/2011 alle 03.17 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos ha scritto: > > > I usually create snapshots for kde apps (or kde app deps) till the > actual > release arises. Why should I keep them in my homedir, since I do want > those > tarballs to be deleted after the ebuild's removal? I'm so

[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno gio, 20/01/2011 alle 02.05 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn ha scritto: > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html claims > that dev.gentoo.org is not acceptable for hosting main-tree items, > and > they must be moved to mirror://gentoo before release. Yes

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 21.44 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > > you really need to start off discussions as "here is the problem i > perceive > and here is a solution i think will address it". shooting off e-mails > from on > high as an official edict without room for discussion is n

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 19:50:35 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > *PLEASE NOTE:* This is to be considered QA policy, so we're going to ask > soon to enforce this. This requirement, though, _will_ be superseded as > soon as Infra provides us with a proper archive for this kind of files. you reall

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Thursday 20 January 2011 02:50:35 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > *PLEASE NOTE:* This is to be considered QA policy, so we're going to ask > soon to enforce this. This requirement, though, _will_ be superseded as > soon as Infra provides us with a proper archive for this kind of files. I usually cr

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > *PLEASE NOTE:* This is to be considered QA policy, so we're going to ask > soon to enforce this. Forward going? Or, should we go ahead and start retroactively updating ebuilds that have mirror:// in them right now? Presumably without

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb: I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-l

[gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Hi all, I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-local on dev.g.o. Plea

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: check for enewuser, enewgroup outside of pkg_setup

2011-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:18:24 Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:38:10 + Alec Warner wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:25:03 +0100 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > > >> "If enewuser or enewgroup is called from outside of p

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: check for enewuser, enewgroup outside of pkg_setup

2011-01-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:38:10 + Alec Warner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:25:03 +0100 > > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > > >> "If enewuser or enewgroup is called from outside of pkg_setup, > >> fail" > > > > It is useful sometimes

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: check for enewuser, enewgroup outside of pkg_setup

2011-01-19 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:25:03 +0100 > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > >> "If enewuser or enewgroup is called from outside of pkg_setup, fail" > > It is useful sometimes to call it in pkg_postinst(), if the user/group > is needed at runtime and no

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: check for enewuser, enewgroup outside of pkg_setup

2011-01-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:25:03 +0100 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > "If enewuser or enewgroup is called from outside of pkg_setup, fail" It is useful sometimes to call it in pkg_postinst(), if the user/group is needed at runtime and not during install-time. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signatur

[gentoo-dev] RFC: check for enewuser, enewgroup outside of pkg_setup

2011-01-19 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
There was a discussion on irc about a package that called enewuser and enewgroup from pkg_preinst. That made it fail on fresh install, because the new user was needed at the src_install time (for ownership of the installed files). However, if the user was already present on the system, it was just